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Sunday, March 10, 2013

I'm not saying the people of Norwich are weird, but there's a place in the Castle Mall shopping centre where they paint apes to look like Elvis...


It's not so much Guerilla Warfare as Gorilla Warhol. There's an explanation here, but I've a feeling the article was written by the Gasway marketing department.

Anyhoo, on the subject of cheeky monkeys, it's Mother's Day today, and with the arrival of Toby, it's the first time Lisa's been able to expect two presents from her adoring offspring. Needless to say, she was disappointed. The more children we have, the less time I have to organise gifts for them, and having been away for the past couple of days, Lisa was lucky to get a box of chocolates and a card.

She did, however, receive a bespoke piece of artwork...


Amelie has a habit of making me look less like a big Daddy and more like Giant Haystacks, so I insisted on drawing my own body in an effort to keep things in proportion. Unfortunately she then drew Lisa to look like Twiggy, which slightly defeated my purpose. The Christmas puddings on the right are actually diamond rings, and she asked me to help her draw babies in both mine and Lisa's hands. Presumably to remind us how much worse things could be. The inspirational cherry on top of the creative cake is, however, the dark splodge on the grass beneath my feet. Amelie told me that was dog poo.

To be honest, I preferred our picture of superheroes...


The top one was supposed to be Lisa, but she ended up looking more like Michael Foot crossed with Einstein. So we were spot-on both ideologically and intellectually. My main reason for loving it, however, is because it demonstrates Amelie's ingenuity. And neverending list of excuses. Having watched me draw the dog on Supermummy's legs, she requested that I draw another one on Captain Clown below, but asked that this time I leave her to draw the tail.

She duly did so, after which she sat back, considered her artwork carefully, and said "Actually, that one's a beaver".

5 comments:

Zed said...

Simple explanation is NFN

Happy Mother's Day, Lisa xx

Phil's Mum said...

I think Amelie's artwork is getting nearly as good as yours - and a LOT, LOT, LOT better than mine!

Zed, what is NFN?

Phil said...

Normal for Norfolk. And it wasn't me who said that.

http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/normal_for_norfolk.htm

Zed said...

Derogatory?  We take it as reassuring...

Lisa said...

You're a dead ringer for Milo from the Tweenies in the family drawing.

Thank you, Zed, and thanks so much for putting up with us all. We had a fab time.